All in a Day's Work!

"My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view."
~H. Fred Dale

So we made a harvest one evening. All sorts of things went into it. Two small, but lovely carrots. A wonderfully full scallion. Sugar snap peas, edible flowers, lettuces of many colors, and some dwindling radishes (they really are a cool weather crop). And a whole harvest of potatoes! The potato plants had died back, sadly, too early. They didn't quite like all the rain we'd been getting that entire week I was gone. But we were so excited to see what the harvest might look like... it wasn't actually THAT sad. And, as always, we had plenty of sprouts!

I eyed the potato bag, and put a hand in the bag of soil, expecting it to be packed with small potatoes... I reached farther. I hadn't felt a single potato yet. For a moment, a terrible fear gripped me: what if they hadn't produced at all! Then suddenly I found one. And another. They were deeper down the bag than I had anticipated. Exciting! We pulled up 10 potatoes in all, and all of VARIOUS sizes. A few were really quite "cute".

So that night, our lovely dinner consisted almost entirely of what we had from the garden. We had a lovely salad topped with some added cherries and a few nuts (the only bit not from our garden!). Then we roasted the potatoes with bacon (also not from the garden... ) and some rosemary. The flavors were fantastic. And the salad was quite beautiful.


Altogether we harvested 627 grams or 1.38lbs yesterday! The potatoes were lighter than we were hoping (just over half a pound), but still, it was a good day's harvest, and not much could dampen our excitement. Not to mention our taste buds... I had no idea how fantastic fresh potatoes taste!

In other news:
The peaches look great!

Our melon sprouted!

And my new short-term goal is to reach 34 lbs by the end of July. Seeing as I have a total of just over 11 lbs. It might prove to be quite challenge. But tomatoes should be well on their way! And I have big hopes for August and September with those melons. Go melons, go!

And the garden saga continues!